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Investors' Alphabet: S is for Sharpe ratio

Story by: Nick Rice, Investment Adviser

Here's your starter for 10 for this week: can anyone remember how many Nobel prize-winners were on the board of Long-Term Capital Management?

• Time published: 13:35
• Date published: 01.09.2008
• Published in: Investments

Back to basics with a shoebox approach

When Diary thinks of private banks it is usually for their superior bespoke client services delivered with up-to-the-nanosecond technology.

• Date published: 01.09.2008

Innovation amid the caution

Within recent memory equity markets around the world were strutting their stuff, but in the past year the performance has degenerated into a kind of St Vitus’s Dance, in which nobody can tell what the next move is likely to be.

• Date published: 01.09.2008

Managers will find their skills on trial

Cautious managed funds are a testbed for optimal asset allocation in troubled times

• Date published: 01.09.2008

Worth keeping Georgia on your mind

While developed country politics has a limited impact on the market, portfolios are affected by the actions of Chavez and Putin

• Date published: 01.09.2008

Promising Eastern prospects ahead

Both China and India look extremely attractive to investors in the long term

• Date published: 01.09.2008

More gilt issuances will hit corporate sector

Fiscal help for British consumer will lead to more government borrowing - with consequences

• Date published: 01.09.2008

US economy dodging the bullet

As US presidential candidate Barack Obama jousts with John McCain over the “mental recession” soundbite coined by one of the latter’s former campaign co-chairs, there is reason enough to ally with the “glass half-full” brigade. While many commentators have been pressing to declare a recession in the US, there are sufficient indicators to suggest the US economy is dodging the bullet

• Date published: 01.09.2008

Are the suits jumping on the pink bandwagon?

While Britons hunker down to weather a chilly economic climate, the power of the pink pound seems as buoyant as ever - or so Credit Suisse seems to believe.

• Date published: 01.09.2008

Chefs take a fresh approach to a 'slice of the action'

It is not often businesses put pride and tradition before the bottom line.

• Date published: 01.09.2008

The chance of a lifetime to be left out in the cold

For those who have dreamed of leaving the rather stuffy confines of office life in financial services behind, Matrix Group is offering someone a chance of an adventure of a lifetime, braving -35’C temperatures and frostbite in the Antarctic.

• Date published: 01.09.2008

Live a little

What happens in times of turmoil? People panic.

• Date published: 01.09.2008

Celebrate yourself by all means, just don't drag the rest of us along with you

I remember the shoe-gazing music scene of the early 1990s – not an admission I often make in public.

• Date published: 01.09.2008